Fortnite Season 5 Skins Update:

Shortly following the Season 5 map reveal by Youtube channel TwoEpicBuddies, Epic Games have themselves revealed their first official Season 5 imagery and, well, it's different.

Up until now, all signs have pointed towards a sort of wild west makeover for the map. A desert look, wild west carriages and much more.

But this first official image appears Asain in influence and likely some sort of Japanese Kitsune or Kabuki mask.

For those who don't know the significance of those, here's a quick wiki explainer:

Kitsune(狐, キツネ,IPA: [kitsɯne]is theJapanese wordfor thefox. Foxes are a common subject ofJapanese folklore; in English,kitsunerefers to them in this context. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessingparanormalabilities that increase with their age and wisdom.

Kabuki(歌舞伎)is a classicalJapanesedance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaboratemake-upworn by some of its performers.

the only other suggestion, which has been mentioned on the Fortnite Battle Royale Reddit page, is that this is actually a Bastet mask, which for those who don't know, is a cat goddess in Ancient Egypt.

Which would certainly play more into what we've heard so far and the desert look we've also seen on the Two Epic Buddies video.

What role this mask will play in the overall look of Season 5 isn't clear yet. But you would imagine that this is, at the very least, some sort of skin that will be useable in Season 5.

Otherwise, we cannot see any reason to show or include it in the reveal unless it is part of the Season 5 Battle Pass.

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Fortnite Season 5 LEAKS: Skins, Maps and more revealed

Here's everything we know about Fortnite Season 5 so far.

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Fortnite DESERT MAP - REVEALED

Fortnight Battle Royale's new Desert map has been revealed by Youtube channel TwoEpicBuddies.

The channel seems to have been able to access the new map that's been teased by Epic over the past few weeks and has created a video tour of the new play zone - you can see that in the video below.

The new map has Fortnite looking better than ever, with a yellowish desert flavour to the map. Although certain areas still appear to be untouched from the existing map.

For instance, dropping from the Battle Bus into Anarchy Acres, its obvious the map has almost gone, back in time with older buildings and everything pretty much different to the existing map.

But later on in the video, near Pleasant Park, it looks pretty much as it should. With a bright green football pitch still in the game.

How these two maps will co-exist is anyone's guess.

And whether Epic plans to remove the previous map and have two maps on rotation or let players choose which they want to play, remains to be seen - we'll probably get more information from Epic later this week.

In the meantime, you can see where you'll be playing future Fortnite matches in the video below.

EPIC GAMES

Fortnite Season 5 SKINS: Bastet, Kitsune or Kabuki mask reveal - but what could it mean?

Original Story -Epic Games' Fortnite Season 5 reveal could be coming today and that means we might be about to get our first big look at the games new map and potentially a better look at the Fortnite Season 5 Map.

Last night and earlier this morning the games biggest leaker, @TwoEpicBuddies, sent Battle Royale fans into a frenzy when he seemingly revealed the games new Season 5 map.

For those interested, you can get a closer look at it, and plenty more leaks related to Season 5 in the gallery below.

However, the biggest takeaway from the latest announcement by @TwoEpicBuddies isn't necessarily the map they've revealed. But what they said in their latest tweet.

"Looks great. Video will drop in 4 hours!" wrote the well regarded Fortnite leakers. This also followed on from another in-game screenshot they posted last night that reads: "little spoiler for tomorrow's video!"

Given that, historically, Two Epic Buddies don't create or release that many videos at the best of times, we can only assume that Epic Games Fortnite social accounts are primed and ready for their first big reveal ahead of Season 5.

This could, potentially, drop from 1.30pm onwards, judging by the rough time stated by Two Epic Buddies Tweet.

When will Fortnite Season 4 end?

Epic has been running a countdown in-game to show players how long they have to complete tasks, before the Battle Pass is taken away ahead of being replaced by Season 5's.

Players get an extra two days to complete all their tasks - just over 18 hours at the time of writing - thanks to previous issues with Season crossovers before

So if you're keen to grab everything you can in Fortnite Season 4, you're going to want to grab what you can over the next day.

When will Fortnite Season 5 start?

According to Epic, you can expect the Season to go live at9amBST,4amET and1amPT.

Do be aware, however, that Epic has previously delayed these start times thanks to the backend works it needs to carry out on servers when these changeovers happen - so bear that in mind and prepare for delays ahead of the new Season going live.